Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — FROM WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

FROM WHEATFIELD.

Doc. Turner ha® returned with„hia family and occupies tbe Poised house. Our old butcher has sold hfs/~business to Chas. Whiticher, who will cut and carve to suit.—- d. 4-^ Wm. Turner has moved into his new house in Bentley’s addition - . t .John Qfkfea will soon build a large livery barn on Byron street. Harrfrdh Clark has moved his family to. his mother’s ip Walker tp. He is on the road with samples from Chicago. Chas. Meyers is about to purchase his new stock for his new store on Byron st., which is nearly completed. Grover Smith having sold his saloon up a furniture and coffin room. Says he has surrendered tor all lime ihe liquor traffic. There have been finished or now under way, ten store and residence buildings in Wheatfield since spring, and still a demand for others.

Our hay makers are getting along finely with their crops. There was organized, Aug. 27, a Republican Glee Club. D. L. Taylor is'.bnilding a residence 24x36 in Bentley’s “addition, on Lena street. Chas. Clark, who has been section boss on tbe coal-road, will move to near Brazil, where he has another section. We shall miss Charley for he came as near attending to his own business as any man this side of Paradise. Mrs. John Welsh has just moved into the new boarding bouse near the depot, as general manager. We wish some one would come here and start a shoe shop and save our soles. Who will come? * We have a new lumber yard by Wm. Miller. Old man Bentley has just [laced a new and improved coat of asphaltum on his store and hall roof. There is something out of joint with butterjftakers as there is not enough coming to town for the local demand. John Anderson, formerly of Walker tp., now of Chicago, is stopping with neighbor Alston Nichols, rusticating for a few weeks. You Know.